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No surprise there - "every accusation is a confession" has never been so true as for Trump:
In reality, Trump, then a New Yorker, does not appear to have ever lived in either home, let alone used them as a principal residence. Instead, the two houses, which are next to his historic Mar-a-Lago estate, were used as investment properties and rented out, according to contemporaneous news accounts and an interview with his longtime real estate agent exactly the sort of scenario his administration has pointed to as evidence of fraud.
At the time of the purchases, Trumps local real estate agent told the Miami Herald that the businessman had hired an expensive New York design firm to dress them up to the nines and lease them out annually. In an interview, Shirley Wyner, the late real estate agents wife and business partner who was herself later the rental agent for the two properties, told ProPublica: They were rentals from the beginning. Wyner, who has worked with the Trump family for years, added: President Trump never lived there.
Mortgage law experts who reviewed the records for ProPublica were struck by the irony of Trumps dual mortgages. They said claiming primary residences on different mortgages at the same time, as Trump did, is often legal and rarely prosecuted. But Trumps two loans, they said, exceed the low bar the Trump administration itself has set for mortgage fraud.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences
bucolic_frolic
(54,000 posts)MLWR
(770 posts)IronLionZion
(50,813 posts)Baitball Blogger
(51,692 posts)Whatever he's done, he accuses others of doing. Why we can't turn it around and show he's trying to distract from his own sins is beyond me.
twodogsbarking
(17,569 posts)malaise
(292,679 posts)NOT
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sakabatou
(45,767 posts)Martin Eden
(15,358 posts)Trump won't be held accountable for mortgage fraud, but he might be found guilty of sheer hypocrisy in the court of public opinion -- if the mainstream media does its job.
PatSeg
(52,106 posts)Casting stones and all that - he should have seen it coming.
3Hotdogs
(15,030 posts)value for insurance purposes.
Ol Janx Spirit
(686 posts)Because conservatives only require "personal responsibility" from others--never taking any of their own when caught.
At this point the Wizard of Snooze has legitimately set himself up to say. "I didn't know anything about it," in almost any instance--because his ability to know almost anything is highly questionable.
And all-too-many voters could not care less. All they want is their gas and groceries to be cheap.
It is far too easy to convince most Americans that any issue is one that both sides do, have done, or have caused.
Cynicism-induced stupidity and willful ignorance will eventually kill us all....
Kid Berwyn
(22,889 posts)Bondi already knows.
mwb970
(12,069 posts)He doesn't have enough imagination to make up a plausible lie against one of his many enemies out of whole cloth, so he picks some terrible or illegal thing that he himself has done and accuses his enemy of it. It seems like a stupid thing to do, but we are talking about one of the stupidest people in America and we must adjust our theories accordingly.
Qutzupalotl
(15,659 posts)because people barely paying attention assume everyone is doing it. A person capable of shame over hypocrisy would never do that, but that is the reason for being so over the top.
It's also why he keeps throwing around accusations of election interference to make his supporters feel that cheating is justified, and do his unspoken bidding.
maxsolomon
(38,156 posts)So, not a crime.
popsdenver
(1,532 posts)he also bought a huge building of Condominiums down in Florida...........He leased them to Uber Rich Russian Oligarchs for obscene amounts of money, and they never occupied them, they were left empty..........talk about money laundering/grifting.......